What does smuggle mean?
Definitions for smuggle
ˈsmʌg əlsmug·gle
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word smuggle.
Princeton's WordNet
smuggleverb
import or export without paying customs duties
"She smuggled cigarettes across the border"
Wiktionary
smuggleverb
To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
smuggleverb
To bring in surreptitiously
smuggleverb
To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To SMUGGLEverb
To import or export goods without paying the customs.
Etymology: smockelen, Dutch.
Webster Dictionary
Smuggleverb
to import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace
Smuggleverb
fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely
Smuggleverb
to import or export in violation of the customs laws
Etymology: [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. smgan to creep. See Smock.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Smuggle
smug′l, v.t. to import or export without paying the legal duty: to convey secretly.—ns. Smugg′ler, one who smuggles: a vessel used in smuggling; Smugg′ling, defrauding the government of revenue by the evasion of custom-duties or excise-taxes. [Low Ger. smuggeln, cog. with Ger. schmuggeln; Dut. smuigen, to eat secretly.]
Smuggle
smug′l, v.t. to fondle, cuddle.
Anagrams for smuggle »
muggles, Muggles
Muggles
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of smuggle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of smuggle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of smuggle in a Sentence
And numbers could rise further, from confusion over recent court orders and as smuggle continue to peddle misinformation to make a profit: we are prepared.
Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw:
We're going to deploy strike teams of DPS special agents to conduct surveillance and look for these cloned vehicles, stolen vehicles that are staged along the highways used to smuggle people… and also identify stash houses, which is very important to disrupting Mexican cartel operations.
We don’t think it had another aim, the aim was to smuggle oil illegally from Iran to Syria.
A Russian-flagged oil tanker was captured this afternoon when it tried to smuggle oil off Zawara.
At least 100 drivers were killed trying to smuggle crude into Syria. Drivers are refusing to go because the smuggling route between Mosul and Syria has became a death trap.
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Translations for smuggle
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- smokkelAfrikaans
- هربArabic
- pašovatCzech
- schmuggelnGerman
- pasar, contrabandear, contrabandoSpanish
- salakaubana vedamaEstonian
- salakuljettaaFinnish
- passer en contrebandeFrench
- csempészikHungarian
- contrabbandareItalian
- 密輸Japanese
- шверцува, криумчариMacedonian
- smokkelenDutch
- smugleNorwegian
- contrabandearPortuguese
- провозить контрабандойRussian
- krijumčaritiSerbo-Croatian
- kunyataSouthern Sotho
- smugglaSwedish
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